Subaltern Narrative Through Bakhtin's Dialogistic Theory in History Learning

Abstract

This study is a discourse on the analysis of subaltern concepts in postcolonial theory and their relevance to historical learning. Subaltern narratives developed with the emergence of critical theory. Subaltern becomes a study that needs to be inserted into history learning because it is a critique of the history curriculum which is oriented to the grand narrative in Indonesian historiography and the official history being taught. The process of linking and bridging subaltern narratives can be done through the Bakhtin dialogue theory approach. Bakhtin's dialogue method is divided into two categories including the carvival method and the heteroglossia method, both of which illustrate that subaltern narratives can be taught in critical history learning. This certainly provides an emancipatory opportunity for the subaltern position in historical studies.